tancati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German tanzen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tâːnt͡sati/
Hyphenation: tan‧ca‧ti

Verb

tȃncati impf (Cyrillic spelling та̑нцати)

(regional, transitive, intransitive) to dance
Synonym: plésati

Conjugation

Conjugation of tancati

Infinitive: tancati		Present verbal adverb: tȃncajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: tȃncānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		tancam	tancaš	tanca	tancamo	tancate	tancaju
Future	Future I	tancat ću¹ tancaću	tancat ćeš¹ tancaćeš	tancat će¹ tancaće	tancat ćemo¹ tancaćemo	tancat ćete¹ tancaćete	tancat će¹ tancaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm tancao²	bȕdēš tancao²	bȕdē tancao²	bȕdēmo tancali²	bȕdēte tancali²	bȕdū tancali²
Past	Perfect	tancao sam²	tancao si²	tancao je²	tancali smo²	tancali ste²	tancali su²
Past	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam tancao²	bȉo si tancao²	bȉo je tancao²	bíli smo tancali²	bíli ste tancali²	bíli su tancali²
Conditional I		tancao bih²	tancao bi²	tancao bi²	tancali bismo²	tancali biste²	tancali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih tancao²	bȉo bi tancao²	bȉo bi tancao²	bíli bismo tancali²	bíli biste tancali²	bíli bi tancali²
Imperative		—	tancaj	—	kurimo	tancajte	—
Active past participle		tancao m / tancala f / tancalo n			tancali m / tancale f / tancala n
¹ Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. ² For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively. ³ Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. ⁴ Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.